Tea or Books? #40: how do we arrange our bookshelves, and two E.H. Young novels

Tea or Books?

English - June 05, 2017 06:29 - 47.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 76 ratings
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Alphabetical or thematic shelving? Miss Mole vs Chatterton Square? Episode 40 of ‘Tea or Books?’ continues answering the important questions that others don’t dare to. In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I address the pressing issue of how books

Alphabetical or thematic shelving? Miss Mole vs Chatterton Square? Episode 40 of ‘Tea or Books?’ continues answering the important questions that others don’t dare to.

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In the first half of this episode, Rachel and I address the pressing issue of how books are ordered on our shelves – alphabetical order, arranged thematically, or something else completely? We have fun with this one (thanks for the suggestion, Imogen!) and would love to know what any of you do with your shelves.

In the second half, we turn to the novelist E.H. Young and pit Miss Mole (1930) against Chatterton Square (1947), and I use the word ‘obfuscatory’. Buckle in. And suggestions for other Young novels to try would be very welcome!

Visit our iTunes page, leave us a review through iTunes if you’d like, and below are the books and authors we discussed in the episode. Fewer than usual!

Letters to Max Beerbohm and a few replies by Siegfried Sasson

Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon

A Curious Friendship by Anna Thomasson

M.J. Farrell

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon

Hackenfeller’s Ape by Brigid Brophy

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill

Phantoms on the Bookshelves by Jacques Bonnet

A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor

A.A. Milne

Elizabeth von Arnim

Miss Mole by E.H. Young

Chatterton Square by E.H. Young

Ivy Compton-Burnett

E.M. Delafield

Matty and the Dearingroydes by Richmal Crompton

Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day by Winifred Watson

William by E.H. Young

The Misses Mallett by E.H. Young

The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard

A Man of Property by John Galsworthy